Archive for July, 2011
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
GPU computing training course
We’re offering another training course on GPU programming this fall: Tech-X Corporation is pleased to announce our next three-day training course for GPU computing with CUDA will be held from September 19 – 21 at our offices in Boulder, Colorado, USA. If you are interested, please complete the form so we can contact you with [...]
No Comments » - Posted in HPC by Michael Galloy
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
The newest Mac OS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, was released last week. See John Siracusa’s review for a extremely detailed look at the new features in Lion. AstroBetter posted some thoughts on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion along with a comment thread from users about how it has affected specific astronomy packages. My thoughts [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in IDL,Mac by Michael Galloy
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Modern IDL listed on ITT VIS site
Modern IDL is now listed on the IDL books page on ITT VIS’ site!
No Comments » - Posted in Books,IDL by Michael Galloy
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Modern IDL review
Lesa Williams, ITT VIS Programming Consultant, recently wrote a great review of Modern IDL for an internal ITT VIS newsletter. I had gotten word of the review last week, but today I received permission to post the whole review here: Mike Galloy spent nearly five years writing this 462-page book covering modern topics in IDL, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Books,IDL by Michael Galloy
Friday, July 8th, 2011
DLM implementing Kahan summation
Based on discussion on the newsgroup today about the errors in summing large arrays, I implemented the Kahan summation algorithm as a routine in a DLM. Download, unzip, and build it with the following command: IDL> mg_make_dll, ‘mg_analysis.c’, /show_all_output Don’t forget to put the directory with the DLM in your IDL_DLM_PATH. I thought it would [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in DLM,IDL by Michael Galloy
Friday, July 8th, 2011
IDL Workbench screencast
ITT VIS posted a screencast on their YouTube channel giving a brief introduction to the IDL Workbench, appropriate for someone new to the Workbench. I think a few of these, covering some of the major features of the Workbench like debugging and templates, would be valuable for those considering moving from the command line to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IDL by Michael Galloy
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
mgunit 1.2 release
mgunit 1.2 is ready for download. This is not a very exciting upgrade, but offers some nicer documentation. Here’s the new features: Added FAILURES_ONLY keyword to display only failed tests. Simplified and improved user-level API documentation. Added VERSION keyword to report mgunit version. Maybe this is just a reminder that if you are not testing [...]
